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Bonnie Shucha is the Assistant Director for Public Services at the UW
Law Library where she supervises reference, instruction, circulation,
and document delivery services for the UW Law School and campus
communities. Ms. Shucha also selects material for the library collection
in several topic areas and serves as the Law Library's Federal Depository Library Program coordinator. As an Assistant Director, she also oversees Law Library operations, personnel, technology, and facilities.

Ms. Shucha has presented and published extensively on library and
law-related technologies, including contributing several chapters to
the seminal legal research treatise, Fundamentals of Legal Research and several articles to the Law Library Journal. She is also the creator and author of the UW Law Library blog, WisBlawg, which provides legal research news and advice with an emphasis on Wisconsin.

Ms. Shucha received a J.D. from the UW Law School, both a M.L.I.S. and
M.A. in History from UW-Milwaukee, as well as a B.A. in History from
UW-Eau Claire. Her research interests focus on the history of
prostitution and public policy in Wisconsin. Her work on the topic has
been published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History and reprinted in Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium. She is continuing her research on the subject.

Ms. Shucha is an active member of the American Association of Law
Libraries where she served as chair of the Computing Services Special
Interest Section and co-chair of the Publishing Initiatives Caucus. She
is also a past president of the Law Librarians Association of
Wisconsin.

When she's not at work or school, Bonnie is mom to a busy 13 year old
son and 10 year old daughter. Her husband is a lecturer at UW Richland and is pursuing a PhD in education from UW
Madison. She enjoys reading classic and fantasy novels,
playing with her two miniature dachshunds, and relaxing at the cabin
with her family.